baba

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a small rum-soaked sponge cake; also a term for father or old man

   They served a rum baba glistening with syrup for dessert.

Of multiple origins: as a cake, from French baba, from Polish baba ('old woman, grandmother'); as a kinship term, from a widespread nursery word baba ('father, old man') found across many languages.

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